Meet the podcasters who call iCloud scammers just to talk
“I would like to claim I was that cautious, but in the moment I was not.”
Six months ago, Alex Goldman, co-host of the Reply All podcast, allowed somebody he knew to be a scammer take remote control of his computer. I had just asked him if the computer he provided access to was a clean test laptop devoid of his personal data. Nope, it was his daily driver. Of course, he did it for a story for the podcast, which is available to download today.
The scammer in question was running a grift that tried convincing people their iCloud accounts had been hacked and the only solution was to pay $400 in tech support. But he didn’t know any of that yet. He only knew that he had received a robocall from a random 800 number and wanted to find out who...